Originally Posted by
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The following review appeared on Amazon.com and I was really surprised. Everyone has an opinion, but I must say that I think the album is great. Mojo Magazine agrees with **** review in December issue.
If anyone is more excited about the album than this, I would love for them to post a review on Amazon.com [[USA)
The album is also doing nicely, within the confines of a mega declining physical product market.
Here's the review. Do you agree?
** Unreleased for nearly 40 years and with good reason [[I think that's the heading...)
I am a big admirer of the 'Reel Music' imprint who lovingly re-release classic R&B and jazz albums with superb remastering, excellent packaging and detailed liner notes. It is therefore with great sadness that I report that this 1st ever release of the Motown female group Sisters Love's album from the early 70's is a dud and a case of 'Reel Music' dropping the ball. A few years ago the peerless UK reissue label 'Soul Jazz' released a compilation of the best tracks from the tenure of Sisters Love at Motown and it was brilliant featuring their rare groove classic, "Give Me Your Love" and much else of nearly the same quality and I really highly recommend it. What has therefore gone wrong with this release? Well five tracks here overlap with the Soul Jazz release including the aforementioned "Give Me Your Love" and they are by some distance the best tracks here. Other than these 'overlaps' there are about two other top-drawer tracks, "Communication" & "[[I Could Never Make) A Better Man Than You" which follow to good effect the funk/soul hybrid template of the Soul Jazz comp. The remainder of the tracks comprise cliched Motown stompers sounding like throwbacks to the 60's, a couple of pretty weak ballads and some misfiring cover versions such as "Do What You Gotta Do", "Sweet Inspiration" & "Giving Up" none of which are going to make you forget the classic versions by Nina Simone, The Sweet Inspirations and Donny Hathaway respectively. Worst of all is a pseudo-"rave up" version of "Turn On Your Lovelight" with fake 'live' crowd accompaniment which is frankly atrocious. A great shame therefore and is a reminder that much unreleased music is unreleased for a reason, it just isn't very good and this set is no different with the best tracks already mined for a much superior compilation and things should really have been left at that.
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